Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poet's Biography First Line: My matins are remembered well Last Line: Yet singing like a thousand birds. Subject(s): Drowning; Sailing & Sailors; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen | ||||||||
I MY matins are remembered well, The lark will never let me bide: And then at dusk the sailors' bell Calls evensong along the tide. And that white chorister the sea Awaits not word nor any sign, But worships here eternally Where every cliff becomes a shrine. II This is a garden of delight Set fragrant in an ancient land Where dawn is a pale rose, and night A dream one may not understand. And here are gold and silver sands, And caves where many a buried king Lies musing, with his folded hands, On sunsets past imagining: And pools and busy of utter rest, Deep pools where care will surely drown: Where dusk comes softly to her guest From russet hills in russet gown. III And when the quiet stars are hung About the moon where each belongs, I hear the ghosts of all the songs The busy world has left unsung. But, when I strive their souls to pen Within my cage of mortal words, They swiftly fly beyond my ken Yet singing like a thousand birds. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM; AN ODE by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON WALES VISITATION by ALLEN GINSBERG WELSH INCIDENT by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES THE BARD; A PINDARIC ODE by THOMAS GRAY THE TRIUMPHS OF OWEN: A FRAGMENT by THOMAS GRAY WELSH LANDSCAPE by RONALD STUART THOMAS A BALLAD OF GLYNDWR'S RISING by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES A HYMN FOR ST. DAVID'S DAY (TO THE MEMORY OF SIR OWEN M. EDWARDS) by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES A SONG OF CALDEY (TO THE PRIOR AND BENEDICTINE BRETHREN ON THE ISLAND) by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES |
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